The Fresh Air of Mathematics

"It is a pleasure to constantly inhale the fresh air of mathematics" - so remarked A.J.M. Taylor-Woodhead in the 1920s at Kings College, Cambridge, where he studied and lectured on the "divine art" of mathematics aka. "language of the universe". Taylor-Woodhead was known as saying that walking was a useful way for the mathematician to reframe their relationship with reality and emphasised in these "walks of truth" that the focus should not be on mathematical problems but meditation on mathematical perfection which, in his belief, would spur more fruitful development of one's innate mathematical talents.